Approval in principle for a development of first time buyers homes

Refusal Reasons

• ✗The site is designated as Open Space on the Onchan Local Plan. As such, the development of this site would be contrary to the prevailing land use policies of both Tynwald and the Department and would establish a highly undesirable precedent of random development within the Island's Countryside.
• ✗Little Mill is a very rural area in which the existing built development is in scattered form of individual houses or small groups of buildings. Whilst no numbers of dwellings have been indicated in the application, in order to make the development viable, it is likely that the development will not take the form of individual properties scattered within the site which is the type of development generally found here. As such the development is likely to take a form unsympathetic to the character of the area.
• ✗The Little Mill Road and Ballacottier Road are rural roads with limited forward visibility in places and limited width in others. This road is not suited to further development, particularly relatively large scale development as is likely to result from this application.
• ✗The site has a frontage which is of insufficient length to accommodate a new access which provides visibility splays which are to the satisfaction of the Department of Transport. In addition, there is a small line of trees growing in the southern part of the roadside frontage which would probably need to be removed in order to try to provide the visibility required for the new access. The loss of these trees would be unfortunate and would exacerbate the urbanising effect which the development would otherwise create in this rural area.
• ✗The site falls within an area designated as unsuitable for development due to pollution of an existing or future water supply.
• ✗The current capacity of the Glencrutchey Water Treatment Works is such that a potable supply of water could not be guaranteed: any capacity available should be made available first and foremost to developments on land which is designated for development or which otherwise comply with the Department's policies.